<p>I have many many reasons for wanting to go to JHU, however, this one just totally struck me while reading these boards. I really want to be surrounded by like minded individuals with aspirations to do something great in life.... In my school it kind of goes like this. All my AP/honors classes are full of decently intelligent people, and all my electives and non-honors classes are full of kids who don't even know if college is in their future. I want to be able to go to a school where every single one of my classes is full of those decently intelligent and inspired kids.</p>
<p>you do realize this is true at all of the universities that are selective and isn't true to just JHU? :confused:</p>
<p>Lol... like I said I have many other reasons for wanting to go to JHU... I was just stating one that stuck out to me from reading all the determined applicants on this board</p>
<p>I know...I was just being a smart aleck as my mom would say :D</p>
<p>I also want to go to a school where students have been murdered in their own rooms w/o signs of forced entry.</p>
<p>No one at Hopkins has been murdered in their room without forced entry</p>
<p>Actually, that's not the first time I've heard mention of this story. I would imagine there is some validity in it, however minute it might be.</p>
<p>I am at Hopkins and both murders here involved forced entry</p>
<p>2 OFF campus incidents AND if anything came positive of those tragedies, Hopkins is a much safer place because of it.</p>
<p>over the summer, they installed special gates in front of the freshmen dorms, in wolman and mccoy, and they might've upped security in nonfreshmen housing as well. I'm not sure about the latter. I do remember that it was a pain in the butt visiting my friend living in the Homewood Apartments because I had to check in and do a bunch of stuff. Anyway, i'll take pictures soon because the gates look pretty spiffy. I've always felt safe on campus at night, even off campus if i traveled with a group of friends.</p>
<p>Safety was a concern for some of my fellow applicants last year as well. But from what it seems, you wont know how safe Hopkins REALLY IS until you get here, or visit. Because...really...it is! haha.</p>
<p>Apology if I got the story mixed up. But I'm just throwing it out there b/c college life doesn't just revolve around the campus.</p>
<p>That area of Baltimore doesn't seem too safe, even with common sense.</p>
<p>it's actually not bad. you'd be pleasantly surprised. :)</p>
<p>JHU isn't even the worst of Baltimore. I had to stay in quite possibly the worst part of Baltimore for a night...I was scared a bit.</p>
<p>As a current freshman, I promise that you will feel safe, especially with the new additions to campus security. Also, the area around campus is not bad at all...just use some common sense and travel with others at night.</p>
<p>JHU hired a former member of the U.S. Secret Service to head JHU security. He used to be in charge of site security for Camp David. If he can protect the President of the United States from terrorists, etc., surely he has some idea of how to properly protect a bunch of students. I am sure any student on any campus in America who looks hard enough for trouble can find it; but security at JHU is not a major concern.</p>
<p>Its a flat out lie to say security at hopkins isn't a major concern, why would the school be trying to implement so many things if it weren't? I feel that in a lot of cases a false sense of security is created because nothing has happened to you, but to say security is not a serious issue is a fallacy.</p>
<p>Of course security is a major concern for Hopkins, that's why there are so many precautions up...which is really good.
I am just saying that security here isn't as bad as people make it out to be. I think you can agree with that.</p>
<p>I don't want applicants feeling like they should feel hesitant of applying because they don't feel it's safe. It's ridiculous. The truth is, it is pretty safe but not 100%-nothing-will-happen-to-you safe...like any other place you would apply to.</p>
<p>I would argue that Hopkins is less safe than the average college campus (including other city schools). And it is also difficult to say exactly what effect all these new security devices will have since they were just initiated, as of last year people were still being mugged on campus (including in their own room) and in the nearby area, which I feel is Hopkins responsibility seeing as how they do not provide upperclassmen housing. Sure all these new things help the underclassmen but the school has done little to help those living off campus in run down row houses that are far too easy to break into. The problem goes far beyond campus security, which I will admit has improved over the years</p>
<p>spe07, I do not appreciate you're suggesting that I am lying. I am not. I am expressing my opinion which I believe to be true. The fact that you have a different opinion from mine does not cause me to believe you are a lier. My opinion is that given the extensive measures JHU has taken regarding security, security is no longer a problem at JHU. </p>
<p>As to your comment:
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Hopkins is less safe than the average college campus (including other city schools)
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I know your comment is wrong. So I say to you -- Prove It!</p>
<p>If you believe the fact that 2 students have been murdered in the past 2 years is not a serious issue than so be it. Call me crazy but I consider that a serious issue, and I would wager a guess that most people would consider that to be a problem. And I really don't see how anyone would claim that security at hopkins is not a serious problem considering the reaction by the school, if it was not a serious problem then why are we be implementing new devices trying to fix it?</p>
<p>As for proving that Hopkins is less safe than other campuses I will again state that 2 people have been murdered in the last two years and people have been mugged in there own rooms in AMR II. I have no statistics to back up my claims, but these are true facts about life at Hopkins.</p>